Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled LandPublicAffairs, 2011 M04 12 - 416 páginas A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist describes how Cambodia emerged from the harrowing years when a quarter of its population perished under the Khmer Rouge. A generation after genocide, Cambodia seemed on the surface to have overcome its history -- the streets of Phnom Penh were paved; skyscrapers dotted the skyline. But under this façe lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Although the international community tried to rebuild Cambodia and introduce democracy in the 1990s, in the country remained in the grip of a venal government. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joel Brinkley learned that almost a half of Cambodians who lived through the Khmer Rouge era suffered from P.T.S.D. -- and had passed their trauma to the next generation. His extensive close-up reporting in Cambodia's Curse illuminates the country, its people, and the deep historical roots of its modern-day behavior. |
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... wrote: Gaunt, glassyeyed and possessionless, they crouch in the heat, hungry and diseased. They stoop over small, dry plots of rockhard soil. And they wait. They wait in tight lines for hours to get today's ration of food from ...
... wrote: Gaunt, glassyeyed and possessionless, they crouch in the heat, hungry and diseased. They stoop over small, dry plots of rockhard soil. And they wait. They wait in tight lines for hours to get today's ration of food from ...
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... wrote a fiveday series on Cambodia. Back then, before the Internet, even before Nexis and other newspaper data banks, when a regional paper wrote something, no one else saw it. For us, we heard only from readers in Kentucky and southern ...
... wrote a fiveday series on Cambodia. Back then, before the Internet, even before Nexis and other newspaper data banks, when a regional paper wrote something, no one else saw it. For us, we heard only from readers in Kentucky and southern ...
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... wrote in his book on Cambodian education, Anatomy of a Crisis, that in Vietnam, “traditional education provided an avenue for social mobility through the arduous series of mandarin examinations.” In contrast, “Cambodia's traditional ...
... wrote in his book on Cambodian education, Anatomy of a Crisis, that in Vietnam, “traditional education provided an avenue for social mobility through the arduous series of mandarin examinations.” In contrast, “Cambodia's traditional ...
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... wrote a book, called The Warrior Heritage, about Cambodians' view of themselves, as he remembered it from his youth. “To be Cambodian is to be a warrior, the creator and builder of Angkor Wat,” he wrote. “More accurately, to be a ...
... wrote a book, called The Warrior Heritage, about Cambodians' view of themselves, as he remembered it from his youth. “To be Cambodian is to be a warrior, the creator and builder of Angkor Wat,” he wrote. “More accurately, to be a ...
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... wrote. The next contingent “was made up of three to five hundred women of the palace” who carried huge candles, alight even though it was daylight. Following them came carts drawn by goats, deer, and horses, all of them decorated with ...
... wrote. The next contingent “was made up of three to five hundred women of the palace” who carried huge candles, alight even though it was daylight. Following them came carts drawn by goats, deer, and horses, all of them decorated with ...
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN | |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN | |
Acknowledgements | |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER | |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
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